Mon, Nov 19 2018

PARADISE, A SMALL Californian town, looks like hell. Some 80-90% of its homes have been incinerated by the state's deadliest-ever wildfire, which so far has killed 48 people and left over 200 missing (see United States section). Measured by area…

(CNN) Thirty-four percent of US parents said their child was unlikely to get the flu vaccine this year, according to a report published Monday by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. The online poll, which was administered in October, looked at 1,977…

New Delhi (CNN Business) Ikea has come up with a plan to help some of the world's most polluted cities breathe easier. The global furniture giant will start making products out of agricultural waste in India, meaning farmers no longer have to burn…

Becoming. By Michelle Obama. Crown Publishing Group; 448 pages; $32.50. Viking; £25. BEING A FIRST Lady, writes Michelle Obama in her candid, engaging memoir, is “not technically a job, nor is it an official government title. It comes…

(CNN) An Australian swimmer has died following a suspected stingray attack, according to reports. The 42-year-old man was attended to by emergency services at Lauderdale Beach in Tasmania after suffering 'a puncture wound to his lower abdomen,'…